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Sync Thunderbird with Facebook/Social networks

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Stereotactic

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Mar 20, 2011, 12:01:39 AM3/20/11
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Is there any way to sync Facebook contacts with Thunderbird? I'd like to
see the contacts listed with their pictures and possibly status updates
since most of them overlap with my public profile.

I found a thread somewhere (nearly a year old) on the Mozilla Forums but
there seems to be no work done in that direction. If FB does not allow
this, it does allow downloading all your information in one format;
could that be "imported" in Thunderbird?

Just a thought. Because it's absence does not really cripple me or my
workflow. But given that a large number of third party applications for
FB exist on desktop, this could well be taken as a suggestion :)

Chris Ilias

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Mar 20, 2011, 8:33:00 AM3/20/11
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Is the "Thunderbird Contacts" extension what you want?
<http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/thunderbird-contacts/>

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Stereotactic

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Mar 20, 2011, 9:15:54 AM3/20/11
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On 03/20/2011 06:03 PM, Chris Ilias wrote:
> On 11-03-20 12:01 AM, Stereotactic wrote:
>> Is there any way to sync Facebook contacts with Thunderbird? I'd like to
>> see the contacts listed with their pictures and possibly status updates

>> since most of them overlap with my public profile. SNIPPED.....


>
> Is the "Thunderbird Contacts" extension what you want?
> <http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/thunderbird-contacts/>

Nope; that somehow loads the contacts in Firefox. I was looking for a
way where Facebook/Social Stream contacts come in Thunderbird's Contact
Bar and possibly alert me to their online status as well.

I think there is some plug-in for Outlook; after some digging and
searching here's on RWW:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/07/outlook-social-connector-facebook.php


Microsoft has done work in this regard.

Please correct me whether the mailing list is appropriate for asking for
a "feature request".


Christian Riechers

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Mar 20, 2011, 9:45:49 AM3/20/11
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The Contacts add-on is for TB, it is derived from a FF add-on though.
"Thunderbird Contacts lets you pull in your “web contacts” from sites
like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. It also lets you connect to your
mail contacts inside of Yahoo or GMail."
Before installing Contacts, you have to install OAuthorizer.
https://github.com/mozilla/oauthorizer

I'd suggest you give it a try before talking about new feature requests.

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Christian

ftr

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Mar 23, 2011, 5:49:47 AM3/23/11
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Maybe nice, but not available in FF 4.

Chris Ilias

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Mar 30, 2011, 7:13:20 PM3/30/11
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You're not supposed to install it in Firefox; you're supposed to install
it in Thunderbird. Download the XPI file to your desktop, then in
Thunderbird, go to Tools-->Add-ons and click [Install]. Select the XPI
file you downloaded and click [Open].

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